Workshop aim: this full day workshop offers a valuable insight into the structure and function of the pharmaceutical industry; helping you to understand and perform well within your environment. This course is aimed at junior staff.

Audience: This event is aimed at junior consultants who are new to the pharmaceutical industry. However, it is also open to more senior consultants/account managers who think they would benefit from having a general overview of the whole industry.

Learning objectives

Be aware of the history and development of the pharmaceutical industry

Know how the industry is segmented and the identity of its major players both now and in the future

Understand the protection afforded to a pharmaceutical product through its patent

Understand the development process by which a promising molecule becomes a profitable drug

Be able to differentiate between the various phases of pre-clinical and clinical development

Know how pharmaceutical products are licensed through Regulatory authorities and appreciate the importance and process of pharmacovigilance

Know how and increasingly where drugs are manufactured

Appreciate the various laws and codes of practice which control the industry

Be aware of the major pharmaceutical markets and know how companies access these markets before then promoting their products

Have considered potential future trends within the industry and therefore future opportunities